Hotshots

Alliance of American Football – Ready or Not is HERE!

Here comes SPRING football! Ready or not, we have the first of two springs football leagues about to begin. The first league is the Alliance of American Football (AAF) league starting play this February, a week after the National Football League’s Super Bowl LIII game. The second league is the reboot of the 2001 XFL league, starting in 2020 (more on this league later). The co-founders’ Charlie Ebersol and Bill Polian objectives is to create a league to attract football talent from among the wealth of high level players who have fail to be on a NFL team.

Arizona Hotshots Team History

The Arizona Hotshots are a professional American football team based in Phoenix, Arizona and is the 5th team to join the upcoming Alliance of American Football. The Hotshots were the 5th of 8 teams announced for the new league, which is set to play in February 2019.

Established2019

CityPhoenix

League History2019 – Present / Alliance of American Football

Team History2019 – Present / Arizona Hotshots

NicknameHotshots – “The Arizona Hotshots pay tribute to the elite, highly-trained teams of firefighters organized by the United States Forest Service and other federal, state and county agencies that bravely battle the most serious wildland fires around the country,” the AAF said in a press release Tuesday. “The Hotshots will have a profound appreciation for fearlessness, skill and honor and will selflessly play together as a team each week.